Gawker is appealing the verdict, and in the meantime, the company's founder seems to have stayed busy with conspiracy theories.

Nick Denton told The New York Times: "My own personal hunch is that it's linked to Silicon Valley, but that's nothing really more than a hunch. If you're a billionaire and you don't like the coverage of you, and you don't particularly want to embroil yourself any further in public scandal, it's a pretty smart, rational thing to fund other legal cases."

Going off that description, Forbes went the extra mile and named this supposed "investor" with the help of "people familiar with the situation who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity."

It named Peter Thiel — PayPal co-founder, billionaire and gay man. But the last item on that list used to be a bit of a secret — until Gawker published an article about his sexuality back in 2007.